During our last Servant Leadership class we did a kind of review of all the things that we learned and still something that resonated with me was when we spoke about worldviews. We are raised to think about the world one way and this perception helps to shape us into the people we are today. […]
Church of the Saviour: A Faith Community of Character
In November we visited Washington, DC, the culmination of our Servant Leadership course in the fall. Our visit was focused around Church of the Savior, started by Gordon and Mary Cosby in the 1940’s in the Columbia Heights and Adam’s Morgan neighborhoods. What I was struck by was the church’s (and the Cosby’s) incredible legacy […]
From Abstract to Concrete: Servant Leadership in Action
This month’s trip to DC to visit the Church of the Savior was a fantastic example of the JSC value of co-creation. We were presented over and over again with examples of people and communities living counter-culturally. Ray McGovern, for example, actively and publicly questions dominant systems and structures that manipulate and oppress. Becca Stelle, […]
Forging Character in Community
To say that intentional community is a challenge is a bit of an understatement. Never have I ever been in a situation where I constantly question my Character. We are all very vulnerable and this is the age where we truly figure out what core beliefs are now that we are out of the shadow […]
Power in Togetherness
Collaboration keeps popping up in every area of my life right now, and what it keeps reminding me is that there is power in togetherness. Nowhere is that more apparent than in my work placement. I’m placed at Dress for Success, and there are so many moving pieces that interact in a day to create […]
Learning to Cultivate the Inner Life
One of the things that initially attracted me to the Episcopal Service Corps, and later, after some research, to JSC was the knowledge that I would be challenged to explore my own spirituality in a way I never had before. I knew I was an external, extroverted person – while I need space and time […]
Who Knew There Could Be So Much Collaboration?
Since arriving at the Johnson Service Corps collaboration has been a big factor in each of our lives. Everything that one person does affects the rest of the group. It is a powerful and great thing to be apart of. I have been on teams and have had close friends, but it does not compare […]